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2008-02-09T13:10:00.001Z

A fax comes in...
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#1

2008-02-08T01:22:00.000Z

Your honour,

As agreed, I will begin sending you copies of the documentation we have been compiling. Once again sorry for the piecemeal nature of these deliveries but I know you are eager to start your work. I am starting today with the first email of many.

Yours faithfully,

Vikram Chowdury

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#2

2008-02-07T00:09:00.001Z

Your honour,

Please find attached the phone transcripts for Mr Tim Miller for the 5th of August, 2007.

Due to file size considerations, I will send the rest in a separate communication. Audio files also available upon request.

Regards,

Vikram Chowdury.

Attachment: transcripts-05-03-2008.pdf

#3

2008-02-06T01:54:00.000Z

Your honour,

Besides all the information that is available via conventional means through the work of the prosecution and the investigators, Mrs Saskia Miller also produced much interesting material.

She was an avid writer, working daily on both her diaries and the first draft of her unpublished novel. We can safely assume a higher degree of verisimilitude in her diary than in the largely autobiographical novel. However, your honour, it is my belief that there are details and episodes in that draft novel which are drawn straight from her life. Episodes which she didn't have the openness to disclose in the diary, being as she says an instrument to self-regulate her humour in distressful times.

Therefore please find attached her diary entries for the 11Th of August, 2007. I will send you, as soon as I have prepared it, a substantial part of her novel which deals with the circumstances presented in the diary.

Yours in sincerity,

Vikram Chowdury

Attachment: diary-entries-17-03-08.pdf

#4

2008-02-05T22:14:00.000Z

Your honour,

This is the first chapter from Saskia Miller's draft novel which I feel is relevant to your understanding of Mr Tim Miller and what has occurred. It details his first night in India and is a clear sign of his failing mental health. As I mentioned previously, we have no way of knowing how related this fictitious character Jeremy Gould is to Mr Miller. However, the similarities are staggering and surely not coincidental.

I must warn you that from this chapter onwards the content of Saskia's fiction takes a turn for the nasty and grotesque. If at any point you feel that it is too much to bear and you wish to receive no more news, please let me know. I understand fully that the sort of evidence I am sending you at the moment would not be admissible in court and I appreciate your lassitude in accepting and reading it.

Devotedly,

Vikram Chowdury
Attachment: draft-novel-24-03-2008.pdf

#5

2008-02-04T22:18:00.002Z

Your honour,

The continuation from my last email.

Attentively,

V. Chowdury

Attachment: draft-novel-31-03-2008.pdf

#6

2008-02-03T16:51:00.002Z

Your honour,

I bring you chapter 25 from Saskia's draft novel.

I must point out some inaccuracies in this text. While it is true that traffic in India is less than idyllic, it certainly is not as bad as described. Also, the paan she refers to, is neither a hallucinogenic nor addictive. In its most extreme recipe, paan will have tobacco leaves in it, but no paan in existence would create the effect she describes.

I am beginning to suspect there is a strong anti-India, anti-Asia bias in Mrs. Miller's writing. Was this influenced by her husband's views? Or did it originate spontaneously? We will never know.

Respectfully,

V. Chowdury

Attachment: draft-novel-13-04-2008.pdf

#7

2008-02-02T16:29:00.005Z

Your Honour,

It is my understanding that this exchange of emails is completely off-the-record and confidential. Your last email raised some issues regarding this so I would like to clear any and all ambiguities there might exist.

I will present as evidence most of the material I have sent you, but not all of it for obvious reasons. The material which is restricted to these emails is to be kept between us at all times and, if possible, deleted on your side once it has been viewed. Kindly let me know if that was not your understanding.

Yours confidentially,

Vikram Chowdury

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Your honour,

Immense thanks and gratitudes for your discretion.

In this latest series of emails I have included chapters from Mrs. Miller's draft novel. On the last chapter I sent you, Mr Miller's fictional alter ego was just about to enter a meeting at Rana Motors. I won't bother you with chapter 26 from the draft novel as I have managed to source something far better. I have acquired Mr Miller's notes from that exact meeting.

How I got them is besides the point, suffice to say that the world of business has some very unethical practices which in this case have helped our quest for truth.

From these notes, I must again stress that the traditional Indian paan does not have any side-effects. What Mr Miller's driver gave him is a mystery to me. Maybe the leaves were laced with LSD or another hallucinogenic?

Yours gratefully,

Vikram Chowdury

Attachment: notes-meeting-19-04-2008.pdf

#8

2008-02-01T22:12:00.001Z

Your honour,

After last week's detour through Mr. Miller's disturbed mind, we return once again to his wife's draft novel.

It might be of interest to you I have not managed to locate any of the characters so far depicted in this novel. There is no Harshad, no Yuvraj, and I could find no record of any man with an almost severed thumb checking into a local hospital that evening. Of course, in my country's society such matters tend to remain in the private sphere as much as possible. How would the unfortunate man justify the injury to his wife?

Yours narratively,

Vikram Chowdury

Attachment: draft-novel-28-04-2008.pdf

#9

2008-01-31T21:39:00.004Z

Your honour,

Since last week, I have contacted Ealing Engineering PLC. As you will undoubtedly remember, this is the company which employed Mr. Miller until last year. They understood the situation at hand and our predicament. They were somewhat apologetic initially, but I quickly dismissed that attitude. We are all working towards the same goal, are we not? A fairer, safer and more just world, in which we can raise our children trusting them to be secure, and to be avenged if not.

I understand my ideals might not be as modern as some of our colleagues, but they are my ideals. Regardless, the MD (managing director) at Ealing Engineering was very cooperative and provided me with the data stored in Mr Miller's phone at the time of his redundancy. I had initially asked for the device itself, but they contested that it had key business information which could not be disclosed unless there was a court order in that sense. I remember being unhappy at the time, but after I got back to my office and went through the data, my sadness turned to an all-encompassing happiness - the data proved to be very, very interesting.

Along with many text messages, emails and pictures, I found a video on Mr Miller's former phone. Judging by its timestamp we can assume this video was shot right after Mr Miller left the Mughal Motors underground parking garage. He films his surroundings as the taxi drives him back to the hotel while at the same time, he rambles about the past and how he feels. There are some surprising revelations in his ramblings, especially his history of violence.

The video was shot using a cameraphone so the quality of both image and audio is terrible. Therefore, I feel it is pointless to send your honour the integral video. My team has gone to great pains to clean up the images and audio so they are both intelligible. I am sending you the highlights of both in an easier to read format. There is so much material overall that I will make this a two-part communication with the second half coming next week.

Yours dividedly,

Vikram Chowdury

Attachment: video-transcript-05-05-2008.pdf